I can only imagine that's because no more authors will be dying.

He also hosts the usually hilarious Dead Authors Podcast, where he regularly plays HG Wells (of The Time Machine) who uses said machine to bring, um, dead authors into the present for interviewing in front of a live audience. The authors are played by other comedians and the show can be amazing depending on the amount…

So just a roundabout way of saying AoU is going to be a cartoon.